The Man in the Iron Mask

Name: The Man in the Iron Mask
Author: Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask is a classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, first published in 1847. It is the third and final installment of the popular Musketeers series, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. The novel follows the adventures of the four musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, as they attempt to uncover the identity of the mysterious man in the iron mask. The man is being held in the Bastille, and the musketeers must use their wits and courage to discover his true identity and free him from his imprisonment. The novel is full of thrilling action, romance, and intrigue, as the musketeers battle against the forces of the French court and the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. Along the way, they uncover secrets that could shake the foundations of the French monarchy. In the end, the musketeers must decide whether to save the man in the iron mask or to keep his identity a secret.

By Alexandre Dumas · First published 1845 · Genre: Historical Fiction, Adventure, Romance · 60 chapters

Chapter 1: The Prisoner
Chapter 2: How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman
Chapter 3: Who Messire Jean Percerin Was
Chapter 4: The Patterns
Chapter 5: Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Chapter 6: The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey
Chapter 7: Another Supper at the Bastile
Chapter 8: The General of the Order
Chapter 9: The Tempter
Chapter 10: Crown and Tiara
Chapter 11: The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Chapter 12: The Wine of Melun
Chapter 13: Nectar and Ambrosia
Chapter 14: A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half
Chapter 15: Colbert
Chapter 16: Jealousy
Chapter 17: High Treason
Chapter 18: A Night at the Bastile
Chapter 19: The Shadow of M
Chapter 20: The Morning
Chapter 21: The King's Friend
Chapter 22: Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile
Chapter 23: The King's Gratitude
Chapter 24: The False King
Chapter 25: In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy
Chapter 26: The Last Adieux
Chapter 27: Monsieur de Beaufort
Chapter 28: Preparations for Departure
Chapter 29: Planchet's Inventory
Chapter 30: The Inventory of M
Chapter 31: The Silver Dish
Chapter 32: Captive and Jailers
Chapter 33: Promises
Chapter 34: Among Women
Chapter 35: The Last Supper
Chapter 36: In M
Chapter 37: The Two Lighters
Chapter 38: Friendly Advice
Chapter 39: How the King, Louis XIV
Chapter 40
Chapter 41: In Which the Squirrel Falls,--the Adder Flies
Chapter 42: Belle-Ile-en-Mer
Chapter 43: Explanations by Aramis
Chapter 44: Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D'Artagnan
Chapter 45: The Ancestors of Porthos
Chapter 46: The Son of Biscarrat
Chapter 47: The Grotto of Locmaria
Chapter 48: The Grotto
Chapter 49: An Homeric Song
Chapter 50
Chapter 51: Porthos's Epitaph
Chapter 52: M
Chapter 53: King Louis XIV
Chapter 54: M
Chapter 55: Porthos's Will
Chapter 56: The Old Age of Athos
Chapter 57: Athos's Vision
Chapter 58: The Angel of Death
Chapter 59: The Bulletin
Chapter 60: The Last Canto of the Poem

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